Black And White Art Quotes

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections. Kriti Sanon

“A zebra will never see the funny side of things because he is always thinking in black & white.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. Alan Parker

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene

I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old.

There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back. Chris Lowell

Color can do anything that black-and-white can. Vincente Minnelli

“This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.” ― Werley Nortreus

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Brene Brown

I’m a black-and-white type of dude. If you say something, I believe you’re gonna do it. Demetrious Johnson

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

Christina Hendricks

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it’s not particularly meant to please you. It’s meant to talk to you; it’s meant to shame you. It’s meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. Don McCullin

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society. Martin Parr

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can. Jack Antonoff

“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” ― Vikrmn, 10 Alone

“It’s because I know that life is really black and white that I miss my life of colors.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

“Don’t ever let the light of your soul dim, even if the world seems black and white.” ― Tilicia Haridat

“Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

“Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one’s mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.

“Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don’t like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white.” ― April Mae Monterrosa

“No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey” ― Shinde Sweety, Arjun: Without a Doubt

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Robert Frank

“Loo, life is black and white. You don’t know what’s good for you, because you don’t see the black and white! You don’t see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You’re going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way.

It’s impractical. I only have one child, and I won’t have her growing up to be impractical. I can’t think of a worse thing to be than impractical!” ― C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on ‘Smile,’ I learned to adapt to color on my end. Raina Telgemeier

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing ‘Try A Little Tenderness’. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world.

Show me a real man now! Where are they? Chrissie Hynde

A film like ‘Good Night And Good Luck,’ you make that for $7 million because you know it’s a black-and-white film, and it’s not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

Grant Heslov

I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. Benicio Del Toro

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. Pilou Asbaek

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out.

They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. Steve Jobs

“WHETHER IT’S A CHILD’S TOY OR A NATION’S OIL, IT’S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT’S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted.

Or maybe balance, as Famine has said — strength matched with temperance. No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen]” ― Jackie Kessler, Rage

I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart. Kim Hunter

Everything is not black-and-white. I’m really interested in the gray area – not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there’s a genesis for every event in our lives.

There’s some divine order to it, whether it’s ugly or beautiful. Isaiah Washington

“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right.

Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren’t either! Most things in the world aren’t black, aren’t white, aren’t wrong, aren’t right, but most of everything is just different.

And now I know that there’s nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don’t have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white.

Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.” ― C. JoyBell C.

I’ve struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn’t black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can’t define them. Evan Rachel Wood

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much. Steve Nash

Just simple things – I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits. Vanessa Kirby

The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can’t be easily defined in zeros and ones.

Naveen Jain

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ― Robert Frank

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games. Zayn Malik

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’ John Wayne

“Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.” ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“At first, all is black and white.Black on white.That’s where I’m walking, through pages.These pages.Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.” ― Markus Zusak, Underdog

There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white. Lisa Ling

“What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?” ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are stripped away, leaving a stark white landscape, a sky which stays black at night and gray in the day, a world of only three shades.

Stay outside too long, and your hands will get so cold that they’ll go numb and turn red, like the claws of a lobster. During a whiteout, even sight itself is reduced to nothingness.” ― Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour. Jeff Bridges

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. Joel Sternfeld

I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong. Joe Wurzelbacher

“If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.Remember: Just because it’s black and white, doesn’t automatically make it a zebra.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. Rebecca Solnit

It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide. Greg Rusedski

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

Maeve Binchy

I’m very black and white about what I like or don’t like, and I’ve always been that way. Ryan Murphy

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. Doris Lessing

In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray. Paul Dano

There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. Van Morrison

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore. Bradley Cooper

“You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to its aims, and that never happens.

You also want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide––and that doesn’t happen either. All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

“I am a writer. I live a thousand different lives in a thousand different places, in a galaxy of black and white words. Lend me your imagination, reader, and let me show you new places, new people, and fantastic worlds, in all the myriad colors of your mind.

” ― Christine Stobbe

“Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it’s a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we’re drawn to it.

“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.” ― Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? Peter Jackson

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary. Jonathan Anderson

Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games. Zayn Malik

“The first draft is black and white. Editing gives the story color.” ― E.J. Hill

I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the ’80s – watching ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ ‘Facts of Life,’ ‘Silver Spoons,’ Saturday morning cartoons, and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ while eating an insane amount of Stouffer’s French bread pizza.

I was sucked into it all. Jim Rash

“A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you’ll choose the feather every single time.” ― Andrew Klavan, The Truth of the Matter